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The most-searched economists right now, with the latest news on each.

Jeffrey Sachs
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Jeffrey Sachs

American economist (born 1954)

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Dilma Rousseff
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Dilma Rousseff

36th President of Brazil (2011-2016), 3rd President of the New Development Bank (BRICS)

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Karl Marx
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Karl Marx

German philosopher and socialist (1818–1883)

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John Maynard Keynes
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John Maynard Keynes

British economist (1883–1946)

1.59K daily views

Adam Smith
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Adam Smith

Scottish economist and philosopher (1723–1790)

1.29K daily views

Sheryl Sandberg
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Sheryl Sandberg

American technology executive, activist, and author

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Amartya Sen
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Amartya Sen

Indian economist and philosopher (1933-)

John Stuart Mill
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John Stuart Mill

English politician and philosopher (1806–1873)

Mikhail Mishustin
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Mikhail Mishustin

Russian politician; Prime Minister of the Russian Federation

Janet Yellen
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Janet Yellen

78th United States Secretary of the Treasury

Yanis Varoufakis
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Yanis Varoufakis

Greek economist and politician

Bernd Lucke
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Bernd Lucke

German economist, professor and author (born 1962)

Muhammad Yunus
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Muhammad Yunus

Bangladeshi banker, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and the former Chief Adviser of Bangladesh

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Filipino politician, president of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010

Ben Bernanke
Politics

Ben Bernanke

American economist (born 1953)

Yvette Cooper
Politics

Yvette Cooper

Yvette Cooper is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care since July 2026. She previously served as Foreign Secretary from September 2025 to July 2026 and as Home Secretary from 2024 to 2025. A member of the Labour Party, Cooper has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley, formerly Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford, since 1997. She previously held various ministerial positions under Tony Blair and Gordon Brow...

Manmohan Singh
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Manmohan Singh

Manmohan Singh was an Indian economist, bureaucrat, academician and statesman who served as the prime minister of India from 2004 to 2014. He was the fourth longest-serving prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, and Narendra Modi. A member of the Indian National Congress, Singh was the first and remains the only Sikh prime minister of India. He was also the first prime minister since Nehru to be re-appointed after completing a full five-year term.

Yulia Navalnaya
Politics

Yulia Navalnaya

Russian public figure, Alexei Navalny's widow

Andrey Belousov
Politics

Andrey Belousov

Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation

Miatta Fahnbulleh
Politics

Miatta Fahnbulleh

Miatta Nema Fahnbulleh is a British-Liberian politician and economist who has served as Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero since July 2026. As a member of the Labour and Co-operative Party, she was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Peckham in the 2024 general election. She is considered to belong to the soft left of the Labour Party.

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Joseph Stiglitz
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Joseph Stiglitz

American economist, professor, and recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics

Alassane Ouattara
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Alassane Ouattara

President of Ivory Coast since 2010

Gitanas Nausėda
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Gitanas Nausėda

President of Lithuania since 2019

Hakainde Hichilema
Politics

Hakainde Hichilema

President of Zambia since 2021